The Lake Sarasota Community Blog

The Sarasota Coalition of Neighborhood Associations (CONA) will hold its regular Monthly meeting on Monday, April 8, 7 pm at the Sarasota Garden Club, 1131 Blvd of the Arts. The agenda includes a candidate forum with the three remaining candidates for the municipal commissioner at large for the City of Sarasota.  The Lake Sarasota Community Group recently became a member of CONA.

This useful chart of home sales in Sarasota County comes from this page . There's a great deal more information there, much of it demographics and real estate-related, e.g. "Percentage of Sarasota county residents living and working in the county: 85.6%: This data is linked to from the superb Fruitville 210 Community Alliance website . It's a site worth exploring.

Incumbent Sheriff Bill Balkwill is not running again, but there is no shortage of folks seeking his job. The four announced candidates for Sarasota County Sheriff will debate who will make the best sheriff at CONA's Monday, June 9, 7:00 PM meeting. The meeting will be at The Sarasota Garden Club, 1131 Boulevard of the Arts, Sarasota (Corner of US 41 and Blvd of the Arts) at 7 PM on May 12. Please visit CONA's web site for detailed directions. Candidates Dave Gustafson, Tom Knight, and Curt Lavelle have so far accepted invitations to participate. The format at CONA candidates' nights is that each candidate has two minutes to introduce themselves and their views, followed by the panel answering questions from the audience and concluding with a one-minute summary by each candidate. CONA , the Sarasota County Council of Neighborhood Associations, is a county-wide coalition of sixty-one neighborhood and condominium associations and individuals organized around making Sarasota ...